Powerful Song Dynasty

Chapter 599 The right to know Hangzhou military affairs 44
Yuquanshan Academy has seven halls of classics, poetry, natural history, astronomy, investigation, transformation, calculation, and translation, as well as research institutes for female, medical, and Jinshi Sanzhai.

Emperor Zhao Chen personally wrote the imperial book "Yuquanshan Academy", which made Yuquanshan Academy famous. Zhu Lian also donated [-] guan sons to the women's academy, and inscribed the plaque "Xizi Jinxiu", so that the women's studio was completely stabilized.

However, scholars often apply for the examination of classics, righteousness, poetry and fu, and seldom go to other halls.Half of the students of astronomy, physics, chemistry, and arithmetic are adopted orphans, and there are also children who come out of nursing homes, and they are distributed in various halls.

Zong Liang stepped forward to purchase a printing shop and renamed it Yuquanshan Academy Printing Workshop. It was not very eye-catching, but who would have expected that this printing workshop would become a major newspaper with a decisive influence, and it would compete with the other two in the future. Three legs stand together.

"Miss Li, please take a look. This is the official subject textbook of the academy, and it was completed in the next ten years." Wang Xiu's attitude is very gentle, and he is absolutely low-key when dealing with scholars.

There are more than ten books, and Li Qingzhao spread them out to look at them, but he saw that there were political economics, physics, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and geography, etc., and he couldn't help saying: "I didn't expect that Xianggong is so knowledgeable, astronomy and geography, and a hundred schools of thought. Those who don't know what they don't understand are really the so-called people who are born with knowledge, and what they learn is really unfathomable!"

It was rare for Wang Xiu to blush. Scholars in this era are by no means those stereotyped essays of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are still a considerable number of them who are quite accomplished in miscellaneous studies.It's just that the idea that a gentleman is not a tool exists, and everyone is unwilling to invest too much energy, and the right is personal cultivation.Where is he unfathomable, it is simply a doctrine.

Li Qingzhao is an outlier among women. As a master of literature, he has a deep knowledge of epigraphy, which involves a certain knowledge of physics and chemistry, and of course a profound knowledge of ancient Chinese and history.

"I don't know what Miss Li thinks of the graffiti?"

Li Qingzhao didn't answer. He picked up Astronomy and Geography, flipped through a few pages, and said with a smile, "Your Excellency must be familiar with the Classic of Mountains and Seas, otherwise how would you know the land in the far west?"

Wang Xiu couldn't help laughing. He didn't know that he was cheating. Even if he drew a global map, he could draw it pretty well. He said seriously, "Ms. Li is so proud of you. I have only a half-knowledge of the Classic of Mountains and Seas."

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas is nothing but strange talk. I am joking, so my husband should not take it seriously." Seeing Wang Xiu's seriousness, Li Qingzhao seemed to attach great importance to being talked about by Fang Wai, and his views were so novel.

Wang Xiu didn't want to explain too much, and said with a faint smile: "I've dabbled a bit, but there are many flaws in the details of astronomy and geography, and I can generally introduce products and cultures outside the region."

"Most of the things described in the book are unheard of. There is also this theory of biology. People use their brains to think instead of their hearts. It's too unbelievable. I don't know if scholars can accept it. In the past, Professor Xianggong's disciples had nothing to do. But the academy recruits handsome men from all over the world, so we must filter them out!"

Wang Xiu naturally understood Li Qingzhao's good intentions. It's one thing to learn by yourself behind closed doors, but another to show it to the world. It's not a good thing for Taoist priests to attack and defend each other. He should be more cautious. it is good.

"Some things are troublesome, but they still have to be done."

"Xianggong wants to print these works at a cost and make them widely read by scholars?" Li Qingzhao drew inferences from one instance, and suddenly thought of the Academy's Publishing and Printing Workshop.

"This is the successful improvement of lead printing, and the development of copper movable type printing, with the aid of simple machinery, can save man-hours, and print a large number of books. The cost is halved, but the effect is several times." Wang Xiu said with a smile. , This little gadget, under his little guidance, the skilled craftsman fiddled with it immediately.

"Improving printing is naturally a good deed to promote enlightenment." Li Qingzhao knew that Bi Sheng improved the printing technique. After continuous improvement in the past dynasties, the printing technology is quite advanced.

Wang Xiu smiled easily, and said softly: "These studies are only used for the teaching of the academy, so naturally there is no need to print them in large quantities in the printing workshop."

Li Qingzhao glanced at Wang Xiu, and asked suspiciously: "Is there any other use for the Academy's Publishing and Printing Workshop?"

"That's right, tabloids are all the rage these days, and the academy wants to start a journal."

"It turns out that Xianggong wants to run a tabloid, and with the backing of great Confucian scholars, I'm afraid that those tabloids will complain about Xianggong and compete with them for profit!" Li Qingzhao said with a relieved smile.

Wang Xiu smiled softly. The simple machinery assisted by copper letter printing can definitely occupy the upper hand. If the efficiency is compared, the tabloids may vomit blood. . . . "

Li Qingzhao is also smart, and gradually understands the importance of academic journals, and said with a meaningful smile: "First, the academy, then academic journals, and then widely advertised, Xianggong's work is closely linked, and every move has a mystery , even punctuation."

Wang Xiu strongly advocated the use of punctuation marks to avoid ambiguity in reading, and explained the usage of various punctuation marks in detail.Throughout the ages, there has been no punctuation in a paragraph, leading to ambiguity caused by different sentence sentences.

Wang Xiu shook her hand and said with a smile: "There is no way, it's very difficult to do something, and Lady Li needs to do her best. I'm just sitting and talking, just empty talk."

"Sit down and talk about the Tao, you are called a prince, and do it, you are called a scholar." Li Qingzhao smiled without hesitation, and teased Wang Xiu with a pun.

Wang Xiu frowned and said with a smile, "Ms. Li, she is a female sergeant."

"Xie Xianggong praised me, but I really don't dare to be a concubine." Li Qingzhao was happy in his heart.

"Why not? With Lady Li's knowledge, she is far superior to those sour Confucian scholars who describe themselves as scholar-bureaucrats. It is a pity that today's world is unruly, and we still need to work hard."

Li Qingzhao was quite emotional, and said in a gentle voice: "My lord knows me, but what I do is shocking the world, and I am afraid that scholars will discuss it."

Wang Xiu looked serious, and said: "Miss Li is at ease, I have my own measure."

After this conversation, Yuquanshan Academy officially launched a journal, named Southeast News, which is absolutely magnificent.Those hired celebrities and scholars stared dumbfounded at the cheap newspapers that came out of the manual mechanical printing machine one by one, all of them were thoughtful, joyful and complicated, and they were all different.

Another three months later, Yuquanshan Academy broke the shocking news that Ye Mengde was hired out of the mountain to serve as the director of Jingyi Poetry and Fu Hall.

Ye Mengde was very famous, even though he was the one who presided over the discussion and was pushed out of the temple by Sun Fu, Tang Ge and others, it did not affect his reputation, and it was rare to be able to hire him.

Naturally, Wang Xiu greeted Ye Mengde in person, and all the deputy mountain chiefs, hall chiefs, and vegetarian chiefs gathered together. Everyone was a literati, so there was a lot of elegance.

Since then, Yuquanshan Academy has gathered stars and gradually reflected its dazzling light.

(End of this chapter)